On Depression

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[enter_eagle]

your why is sisyphus happy video genuinely helped change the trajectory of my life. i never understood how everyone else could cope with how pointless everything is. I saw eating, sleeping, breathing, caring for myself, working my job, entering relationships as all burdens that could never be sated. The ball kept falling back down the hill. my only purpose in life was "i have to stay alive because my loss will crush the people who love me", but i didnt have any passions or goals beyond that. i could never remember things, it felt like i was moving through life as if it were a dream most days. it was like that from 17 to 25. then i watched your video like a day after a really bad breakdown. it was a day i woke up late, felt sore and drained. i opened youtube to scroll for a couple hours and there it was. I watched the first one, where it just talked about Absurdism, i think. And i just didnt get how "one must imagine sisyphus happy" was in any way a revolt of the absurd. it felt like conforming to a system that intends to grind my bones into bread. then i watched the why is he happy video, the 20 minute one, and it all clicked. the only other time i can clearly think of a moment where i ingested i formation that so firmly changed my life was when i tried quitting smoking ciggies. i had tried for like a month of actively trying my absolute hardest to quit, and i couldnt do it. i hit a absolute miserable pit where i felt powerless to ever stop. and i read Alan Carrs The Easy Way to Stop Smoking, and its like a 70 page book, i read half of it, and just quit cold turkey right then and there. i havent smoked in like, 4 years? maybe? i dont even remember, i literally never think about smoking and have no desire for nicotine. Your video was like that for my depression. It totally reframed how i see life and everything. i still have times where i have to face the reality that i spent the last 8 years depressed and have picked up some unhealthy habits, but im aware of them and feel more capable of processing those thoughts. it just really helped me at the right time fr. my memory and focus have improved, i feel passionate about things. im really on a good path, i feel.

[Hundeplayz]

It's funny how we have no original experience and we all share the same mentality and other characteristics

[maillardsbearcat]

I feel this actually. When I have a wound, I can't help but keep looking at it, or touching it. If I could just leave it alone I would forget about it and it would seemingly heal faster.

[sisyphus_strives]

When I'm depressed the narrative for who I am collapses and meaning is moved to an unreachable dimension. At most I can rely on figments of who I was before in order to trudge forwards, towards some nebulous concept of completion. Each book, each acquired skill, and each memory devoid of significance-but telling of what should be. Time and space are dimensions confusing to us humans by their very nature, but meaning is what helps us make sense of it all; to have meaning taken away is as significant as losing one of your sense organs.

[mucegai]

For me depression came from being too harsh on myself and having high expectations and hate myself for not reaching them.After I realised that, I slowly learned that I'm not doing as bad as I thought.

[dr.swagington]

I don't wanna sound like I know anything but my thoughts on the matter. Depression is a state of self-hatred that can never go away. It's also a state of soul-searching that comes up blank. It's also a mental state of suffering. So to me, I feel the best way forward is to love yourself, find a purpose in life, and be surrounded by people who love you.

[BrownGeorge-pwxo]

I suffered severe depression 18 years ago as a teenage, got addicted to cigarettes and alcohol. Also suffered mental disorder. Not until my mom recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.

[TwoDudesPhilosophy]

I remember laying in my room looking at the ceiling and wanting every second to pass by faster. Somehow that was everything that was necessary, time heals all. I'm not saying I didn't do nothing to fix it but at the same time I needed time to pass by in order to look at life differently again.

[imnobd]

I was feeling fucked up for days, and yt recommends me this 😢

[DamsonIdris-rhsx]

Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.

[Beardqt]

i started garderning to focus on other life, it helps me heal with time but gives me a distraction worthy of actually focusing on, we all want to bring something to fruition and gardening even in the simplest way can help

[sobbski]

Acquiring new perspectives is key. Your depressed one is just one possible perspective. 🙂 Remember you are not as concrete as the mental state you have fortified might lead you to think

[gbayesolafolusayo]

Day to day, feeling of emptiness and pointlessness of existing randomly set in"why am I doing this" "no fulfillment but I keep doing it" Living like a zombie day to day. I can't help but feel we're just insignificant ants that are sentient but still follow obvious non yielding patterns

[theirongiants]

This put me out there, depression is like a different lens on life. When you are depressed, you want to keep looking at it. I feel like we are universally fascinated by consistency or patterns, or maybe it's just me beind psychotic.

[Kiwi.an_bean]

This video is quite refreshing! I think I'll come back to it when I get lost in the frustration of running on a tight deadline or accomplishing a goal etc. Its important to try the best one can and have a clear understanding of what things are under ones control w/o being judgemental about it. It's also important to just be present in the process or in the moment sometimes as it makes it easier to get by or understand the situation. Eventually everything comes to an end but that doesn't mean there isn't anything left to start.

[heychrisfox]

Such great insights! I suffer from anhedonia. It dulls all my feelings. I almost never have a 10/10 day, but I'll also never have a 1/10 day. Most of my days are 5/10, making everything kind of blank. It's similar to the Byung-Chul Han quote. For me, it's not discovering the source of the form of depression, but rather, dealing with it. I will never have good days, and never have bad days. But like any sane person, I don't want bad days, and wish to strive for good days.

What do? The key is not setting ultimate goals. Instead, set goals along your horizon. Find a goal, but it is not THE goal. I love writing, so my goal is "finish my story." But that's not the only goal. If I complete that goal, I'll feel horrible, because I have nothing else. So, set a new goal. Then keep setting a new goal, over and over. It sounds exhausting, and it is. But so is life. Sometimes life is exhausting, and that's okay, because as long as you have a new goalpost to strive for, you'll have a reason to keep going.

Nothing is ever complete. So why strive to complete? Instead, strive to have a good time, and when you run out of things to do, find new things. It's not hedonism; it's practicality. Do things that are good and nice. When you run out of good and nice things to do, find new things that are also good and nice. Because, since the world is good and nice by default, you'll never run out of good and nice things to do so long as you actively make the effort to do them.

[milomillian]

Relating to the descriptions at the beginning of the video, I don't think I've heard a better description of the feeling I've had. Give yourself a high five for that.

[maxrodriguez]

How can we practice compassionate curiosity if we have limited relationships, or if having none is one pillar of our depression?

[hamzaurus]

This channel is the reason i understand myself and the world around me

[carloschebib]

Love the idea that the things you used to enjoy doing no longer “charm” you, as if they were the ones trying to live through us and not us through them.